On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Giles Coochey giles@coochey.net wrote:
But you'd be wrong on all counts. I'd argue the opposite - that you should only be allowed to use languages that work across CPU types and OS's so as to never be locked into a monopolistic single vendor.
So if I were to develop a CPU type and/or OS that didn't support Java then you would lock yourself out of the very language you appear to advocate?
Being locked out of some oddball thing is not at all the same situation as being locked into what only a single vendor provides. But try something like 'jenkins' (http://jenkins-ci.org/) with an assortment of cross-platform nodes to get the idea of how handy a language with remoting across many platforms can be. It's painless to install try, even if you only use it on a single box.